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  • Published: 6 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141442372
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $30.00

Kim




Kipling's masterpiece about a boy's journey through imperial India, edited by Harish Trivedi

Kipling's epic rendition of the imperial experience in India is also his greatest long work. Two men - Kim, a boy growing into early manhood, and the lama, an old ascetic priest - are fired by a quest. Kim is white, although born in India. While he wants to play the Great Game of imperialism, he is also spiritually bound to the lama and he tries to reconcile these opposing strands. A celebration of their friendship in an often hostile environment, Kim captures the opulence of India's exotic landscape, overlaid by the uneasy presence of the British Raj.

  • Published: 6 July 2011
  • ISBN: 9780141442372
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $30.00

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The Lady of the Camellias
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Man and Superman
Botchan
Military Dispatches
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About the authors

Pankaj Mishra

Pankaj Mishra is the author of Age of Anger: A History of the Present, From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia, and several other books of nonfiction and fiction. Mishra won the 2024 Weston International Award, which rewards excellence in nonfiction writing on the global stage, as well as the 2014 Windham–Campbell Prize for nonfiction. He writes regularly for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The London Review of Books, among others.